An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.”
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Conclusions
- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
- What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving
- The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
- When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
And 5) predicts the end of our present social-political world. The West is more communist than the Soviet Russia was.
3) The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
This is what has been happening to the people by the elite – bankers, politicians, big business, central banks etc. What the people produced has been taken away from them by fiscal rape. This is why wages have been going down for 3 decades and why it wont be going up in real terms. Why zero hours is becoming more and more the norm and why the people of the Southern Med (Greece etc.) will slowly sink into a third world state, forced by the rich and powerful elite of the EU corporatists.
A great story that should be compulsory reading for all teachers. Better still let them create a similar experiment.
Whether it would make a difference or not is moot. From what I see almost all teachers are infected with the leftist multicult virus which they must pass on to our kids.
Socialists ignore the real and unchangeable nature of humanity in favour of an idealistic, unattainable fiction.